A Current Overview of Viruses of Chrysanthemum in India: Perspective and Prospective

This chapter deals with an overview on the diagnosis and characterization of viruses infecting chrysanthemums. This also describes about the virus management of chrysanthemum through in vitro chemotherapy to eliminate the virus(es) infecting chrysanthemum explants for virus-free plants and development of virus-resistant transgenic plants through genetic engineering. The published work by researchers all over the world and the work done by virology group at CSIR-NBRI, Lucknow, India, have been summarized in this chapter to conclude about the perspectives and prospectives of chrysanthemum, an ornamental plant important for floriculture trade.